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SEXUAL ASSAULT. DUII. ALCOHOL VIOLATIONS.

What UOPD data tells us about the biggest trends in campus crime.

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Amidst a football season that was, to put it mildly, disappointing, November 12, 2016 carried a particular sting for the Oregon Ducks. The team suffered a crushing home loss to Stanford, and four-star legacy recruit Elijah Molden committed to Washington, the team that hung 70 points on the Ducks.

Many were left wondering what future Oregon, a school which has never recruited a top-10 class even when they dominated the Pac-12, could secure after such a disaster of a season.

Enter Taggart. He brings charisma, and connections to Florida, but is that enough?

It seems the answer is a resounding yes. Per 247sports, The Ducks hold the fifth-ranked class nationally and the best class in the Pac-12 with 15 total commitments.

Nine of those 15 are four-star players, including coveted AllAmerican safety Steve Stephens from Fresno, California.

When Taggart arrived in Eugene, the task that lay ahead

of him was daunting. Recruits had pulled commitments after the firing of previous head coach Mark Helfrich, and others seemed deterred by a program with little stability.

Now the Ducks show no sign of slowing down, and it would be no surprise to see the team climb even higher in the national rankings. On June 27, Taggart secured the commitment of Tre’Shaun Harrison, a fourstar athlete from Garfield High School in Seattle, right in the Huskies’ backyard.

While the true test of the Ducks’ recruiting prowess will come when they open their season in September, Taggart has provided the spark the team needed. In his brief tenure in Eugene, he has managed to pull the Ducks out of a tailspin, giving the program a newfound sense of confidence for the upcoming season. The question is no longer can Taggart recruit on a national level. Instead, the country is wondering just how high this man’s ceiling is.

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UPDATE: This article has been updated with details of Carrington’s arrest and updated charges.

Oregon wide receiver Darren Carrington was arrested by Eugene police early Saturday morning on misdemeanor charges of driving under the influence of intoxicants, careless driving and an improper right turn. Head coach Willie Taggart has suspended him from the team indefinitely.

Carrington, 22, was arrested at 3:15 a.m. after crashing his Honda Accord into a pole at the McDonalds drive-through on East Broadway and driving away, according to Eugene police spokeswoman Melinda McLaughlin. A call to police was made regarding a possibly intoxicated driver, and an officer observed the vehicle make an improper right turn out of the McDonald’s parking lot. He pulled Carrington over at the intersection of 8th Avenue and Mill Street.

The officer suspected impairment and arrested Carrington for DUII and two other moving violations.

Carrington was booked in Lane County Jail in Eugene at 5:28 a.m. He is scheduled to appear in Eugene Municipal Court for the DUII case on July 21 at 1 p.m.

The 6-foot-2, 186-pound San Diego-native announced in January that he would return to the Ducks to play his senior season under Taggart.

“The University of Oregon has indefinitely suspended student-athlete Darren Carrington from all football team activities after his arrest last night by the Eugene Police Department on a charge of Driving Under the Influence,” Taggart said in a

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statement. “We are continuing to gather the facts in this matter.”

Carrington had been previously suspended for the Ducks’ national championship game versus Ohio State in January 2015 after testing positive for marijuana on an NCAA-administered drug test.

Carrington has had several run-ins with law enforcement during his time in Eugene.

In October 2016, Carrington was accused of pushing a former UO student to the ground and breaking his arm. The former student, Mike Holland, said Carrington yelled out his name, position, jersey number and hometown after pushing him into the street. Holland went to the hospital for treatment. He said the case was referred to the Lane County District Attorney’s office in November and remains open, but that it “seems to be dead in the water.” He said a detective told him that Eugene police stopped investigating after “Carrington and a few witnesses came forward and corroborated an alibi saying he wasn’t there.”

In September 2015, Eugene police issued Carrington a citation for an open container of alcohol in the early morning after Oregon’s loss to Utah in its Pac-12 opener. According to the police report, he told the arresting officer he did not have a residence and was staying with friends. The officer noted he believed Carrington was being dishonest, and that he had lied about his middle name on a police report from 2013.

In April 2014, Carrington was one of five Oregon football players — Ifo Ekpre-Olomu, Dominique Harrison, Oshay Dunmore, Rahim Cassell and Carrington — accused of attempting to steal a UO

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student’s bike. The student had parked her bike in front of the Dunn Hall dormitory and gone upstairs to retrieve her bike lock. When she returned, she observed a black male adult walking away with her bike and a group of four others laughing.

When UOPD arrived on scene, the officer was unable to identify which person in the group took the bike and did not file any charges. The officer referred the case to athletic department professional development coordinator Tom Hart for conduct issues.

In July 2013, a Eugene police officer was dispatched to the apartment where Carrington lived with three other football players — Tyrell Robinson, Tyree Robinson and Chris Seisay — to investigate “a possible sexual assault,” according to a police report. A female UO student told a Eugene police officer that Tyrell Robinson had pressured her into having sex with his brother, Tyree Robinson, and that she was “extremely uncomfortable” and did not do it. She told the officer that all four men were laughing at her and mocking her. Tyree Robinson slapped her on the backside against her will as she tried to leave. The police officer interviewed all four men. Tyrell and Tyree Robinson told him that the woman refused to leave their apartment, and Tyree said he slapped her backside to get her to leave. The officer wrote Tyree Robinson a citation for physical harassment and filed no other charges. The female student declined to comment when the Emerald contacted her about the incident.

UO athletic department did not respond to the Emerald for a comment from Carrington.

Gus Morris contributed reporting to this story.

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An illustration depicting a University of Oregon police car wrapped up in crime scene tape.

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YEAR IN CRIME ➥ JACK With nearly 24,000 students, 80 buildings, and its own health center and police department, the University of Oregon often feels like a city within a city. And like any city, the university has to deal with crime.

Those crimes are documented every week in UOPD’s Clery crime log — a requirement established in the 1990s to ensure college campuses were being transparent with crime and safety issues.

By saving and compiling data and making records requests for old logs, the Emerald has established a database of every offense reported in the Clery log since the 2012-2013 school year.

Offenses in the log range from assault, rape, kidnapping and possession of cocaine to less serious infractions such as alcohol violations in the dorms. There have been 10,837 violations listed in the log since September 2012. What follows is an analysis of the most common and serious crimes, and trends that have emerged over the last five school years.

For the purposes of this story, a school year is defined as the beginning of September to end of June. July and August were omitted from

the data because a majority of students are not on campus.

Sexual assault Sexual assault is one of the biggest issues facing U.S colleges. UO is no exception.

The basketball team faced a sexual assault scandal in 2014, when it was revealed that three Oregon basketball players played in the NCAA tournament while being investigated for a sexual assault at an off-campus party.

The players were never charged, but were eventually expelled. Legal battles between the school, the accused players, and the victim ensued. The school ended up settling with the victim, paying her $800,000 and awarding her free tuition.

There were 23 sex-related crimes reported in the Clery log this school year: 16 rapes, three cases of sex abuse, two sexual assaults, and two cases of attempted rape. If that number sounds high, it is — 2016-17 saw the highest number of reported sex-related crimes in the last five school years.

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However, the increasing number of reported rapes doesn’t necessarily mean that crime is occurring more or campus is becoming more dangerous.

According to a UOPD spokesman, any reports of rape that appear to have been made in good faith now appear in the crime log, even if they weren’t reported directly to UOPD as a crime.

These include rapes reported by a student to the Title IX office, or reports made on UO’s anonymous online reporting form. “We think we’re seeing this increase in reports because more reporting services are now available,� UOPD spokesman Kelly McIver told the Emerald in November 2016. “Sexual assault is too common of a problem in this age group.�

McIver says that sexual assault is a difficult crime to investigate. Often the crime is reported long after it occurs, making it hard to collect evidence. Many of the rapes in the crime log from 2016-17 were reported weeks or even months after the crime occurred.

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simply list the location as “on-campus” or “on-campus residence hall,” although one case is specifically listed as occurring in the Bean Complex. Another case occurred in a “fraternity chapter house,” but the name of the fraternity isn’t available.

Driving under the influence A trend that sticks out in the crime log is the dramatic increase in DUII cases this school year. UOPD arrested one person for DUII in the 2012-13 school year. In 2016-17, campus police arrested or cited 74 people.

Does that mean there’s been a massive increase in people driving while intoxicated near campus? Not quite. According to UOPD officer Adam Lillengreen, UOPD didn’t focus on enforcing DUIIs until recently, leaving that to Eugene police instead.

But, because it seemed to be an issue affecting campus, UOPD decided to train its officers in DUII enforcement over the past year. As a result, campus area DUII arrests have skyrocketed.

In 2017 alone, there have been 50 DUII arrests

by UOPD. Thirteen of those were current UO students, including star football player Darren Carrington.

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McDonald’s drive-thru on Franklin Boulevard.

He then made an illegal turn and was stopped and arrested by police.

UOPD received a $3,400 grant last year from Oregon Impact, a nonprofit dedicated to reducing drunk driving. As a result, the police department has put more resources into enforcement.

“Now we can have officers who come on duty and the only thing they do is investigate DUIIs,” Lillengreen said. “They are paid for by the state and federal grant.”

DUII arrests in 2016-17 are up 32 percent from 2015-16. Before that, UOPD hardly arrested anyone for DUII.

Drug and alcohol violations The student conduct code prohibits students from drinking or smoking marijuana in UO residence halls, but that doesn’t stop them.

When a student is “written-up” or cited for possessing drugs or alcohol in the dorms, the violation goes into the Clery log. Drug and alcohol violations are the single most common offense listed in the log.

Over the last five school years, resident assistants have issued 4,989 alcohol or drug citations. The number issued per year peaked at 1,298 in 2014-15.

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Bean Hall led the way for drug and alcohol violations this year, with 167. It was followed by Barnhart (142), Hamilton (131), and Walton (108).

Global Scholars Hall lived up to its name, coming in last place with 46 violations on the year.

Other crimes Outside of drug and alcohol violations, theft is the most common crime reported in the Clery log. In 2016-17, UOPD reported 327 cases of theft, including burglary, vehicle theft, and unauthorized entry of a motor vehicle. This was a slight increase from the 295 cases of these crimes in 2015-16. Bicycle theft is common – UOPD reported 71 cases this year.

In the crime log, theft and possession of meth often go together. There were 21 cases of possession of meth and other drugs in 201617, including heroin and cocaine. Most meth/ heroin possession cases occurred off campus, but meth-related arrests were made at Pacific Hall, Knight Library, Barnhart Hall, and the Walton Complex this year.

Violent crime is relatively rare compared with property crime. There were 13 assaults reported this year, along with six cases of carrying a concealed weapon. UOPD hasn’t reported any homicides in the last five school years.

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Music is an important catalyst for action in Edgar Wright’s ‘Baby Driver.’ (Courtesy of Wilson Webb)

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Early in Edgar Wright’s ‘Baby Driver,’ getaway driver and automobile savant Baby (Ansel Elgort), wearing earbuds, pulls up to a bank. Before his passengers (Jon Bernthal, Eiza GonzĂĄlez and Jon Hamm) launch their robbery, he scrolls through his iPod for the perfect beat —â€?Bellbottomsâ€? by the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. While the heist is underway, Baby waits outside and jams in the driver’s seat.

So does Wright, who stages the entire film around Baby’s favorite music. Gunshots and other sounds are perfectly in rhythm, and noises around the characters regularly drift in and out of the musical landscape. It doesn’t take long to notice the effect, which turns the whole affair into a two-hour music video: A bloody, stylish, entertaining-as-hell music video.

Wright is no stranger to copping genres.

2005’s “Shaun of the Dead� managed to combine a zombie apocalypse with a romantic comedy and “Scott Pilgrim vs. The World� followed Michael Cera’s quest to kick virtual ass using kung-fu and video games. “Baby Driver� isn’t a comedy like the rest of Wright’s filmography. But his usual playfulness is on full

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display as he hijacks the best of heist and car chase movies.  The film’s best sequences use long takes and visual gags to keep the audience on its toes.

Wright is so in command of his vision here that it’s difficult to find fault in what he’s doing.

Add a dynamite cast — including Jamie Foxx as unhinged gun-for-hire Bats and Kevin Spacey as domineering crime boss Doc — and the result is movie magic.

Too bad the movie itself isn’t particularly concerned with narrative. The film follows Baby, who does getaway jobs for Doc to pay off earlier debts. Tinnitus — a result of a childhood accident that killed his parents — keeps his ears ringing. Earbuds are his medicine of choice and the music that funnels from a suitably massive collection of iPods fuels his driving prowess.

After a series of heists finally evens the score, Baby is free. That is, before Doc threatens his new girlfriend Debora (Lily James) and ropes him into one last job. The “last job� in question goes expectedly haywire from the onset. Tensions in the group rise, leading to a collection of frantic gunfights

and action sequences that bleed hipster chic.

It’s cartoonishly violent, but not outrageously so. All the while, the soundtrack thumps along and drives the action. Think “Drive,� with a sense of humor.

It sounds perfect. But “Baby� falters when asked to find an ending. The last third of the film’s final act relies on a series of emotional beats established earlier. But making these characters contend with a dramatic arc is a fruitless endeavor. That doesn’t impede Wright’s sense of style — far from it — but it does magnify the film’s lack of substance. It’s great fun. But look too closely, and it’ll leave you empty.

Still, maybe that’s the point. Watching the great Kevin Spacey surrender to an over-thetop role is worth the price of admission alone, even if the casting feels secondary to the stereotypes it fills. There’s Buddy (Ham) and Darling (Gonzålez), the violent criminal lovers.

There’s Bats, the crackhead of the group. And then there’s Baby, earbuds in, bobbing his head to the music. Listen with him and everything else drifts away.

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OPINION

Black Lives Matter started out as a hashtag, and now it’s movement of survival for African-Americans. (Creative Commons)

My journey of understanding ‘Black Lives Matter’ I didn’t really get Black Lives Matter at first. I didn’t know what it was about. All I remember was that after the murder of Trayvon Martin, #BlackLivesMatter was trending. My initial reaction — which 16-year-old me regrets thinking now — is that all lives should matter, right? From then on, I didn’t pay attention to the Trayvon Martin case: to me, it was just another incident. Sure, George Zimmerman looks like an awful person, but what could I prove that the justice system couldn’t?

Unfortunately, people still have this frame of mind today.

A couple of years later, I learned about Michael Brown. The Black Lives Matter hashtag was trending again, and I studied the case a little more than I did Martin’s. I thought, ‘Man, the cop who shot him is definitely going to jail.’ The case seemed clear: His hands were up, he was unarmed and he took multiple shots in the front of his body. From what I gathered, Michael Brown had been murdered in cold blood.

I couldn’t believe it. Darren Wilson, the policeman who killed Michael Brown, was acquitted of all charges. I can’t remember ever feeling more empty in my life. It hurt to know that the officer got away with murder. I thought that nobody was above the law, and that included law enforcement. I was hurt, and from the Ferguson riots, it was clear that the country was hurting even more. From then on, I had looming doubts in my mind if the justice system truly serves justice.

I am not a Black man. But I am a person of color. I thought that if I had felt this much sorrow, I couldn’t even imagine what Black citizens were feeling, and I don’t think it’s my right to put their feelings into words.

Philando Castile was in the car with his girlfriend and daughter when he was shot several times by a police officer. His girlfriend streamed it via Facebook Live capturing

Castile and the officer. In the video, you can see Castile’s blood dripping down his white shirt, the cop panicking, screaming “oh my god� and the daughter crying as she watched the police murder her father.

Castile, a lawful gun owner, informed Jeronimo Yanez that he had a gun in his possession — which you are supposed to do according to the NRA — but the policeman allegedly believed he was reaching for the gun to shoot him. Philando Castile was murdered for rightfully following procedure.

I thought, ‘This is going to be the one that changes the system. This is going to be the trial that finally puts a policeman away for murder and proves that even law enforcement isn’t above the law. People are finally going to realize that this isn’t a partisan issue, this is a humanitarian issue. Black people deserve to live, and this trial is going to bring attention to the broken system. This is the turning point for Black Lives Matter.’ Oh how wrong I was, and how wrong this country is.

Jeronimo Yanez was not indicted for killing Philando Castile, just like George Zimmerman and just like Darren Wilson. He will not face any consequences for taking away the life of a man who served his community. No murder, no manslaughter, not even an endangering child charge.

Castille’s mother put it best: “He loved this city, and this city killed him.�

Why is justice only for white people? It seems that every day I read about law enforcement actively being used against Black people.

On June 29, three Chicago officers were charged with conspiracy, official misconduct and obstruction of justice in connection with the death of Laquan McDonald, a Black teenager fatally shot by a white police officer in 2014. The officers were accused of concealing the facts to protect

Jason Van Dyke, the officer who shot McDonald 16 times.

There was a reason Chicago P.D. kept the dashcam video a secret until they were forced to release it nearly two years later: because the police misconstrued the facts and conspired to protect each other. It’s called a system. One that was made to get away with killing Black people.

First, there’s something we have to understand: the system isn’t broken, it was just never made for Black people.

We live in a country where a white man can murder nine Black people in a church and still live to see tomorrow, but a Black man can follow the law and be killed in front of his family. Or how Eric Garner can be choked to death by police after asking for help, or how Sandra Bland can be killed in police custody or how 12 year old Tamir Rice can be killed holding a fake pistol. It feels like it will never stop.

Many of us aren’t Black and haven’t had confrontations with the police, but we sympathize with the Black community and want the same actions to be taken. How do we, as people who don’t understand the Black American experience, help?

There isn’t a clear, short-term solution, but there are ways to help the cause if you are not Black: 1. We have to listen.

2. We have to realize that racism exists.

3. We can’t be silent.

To a lot of people, this isn’t anything new. But if we don’t keep reminding ourselves, it’s easy to get complacent. If we see injustice and corruption in our law enforcement, we have to be vocal. Black lives depend on it.

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New state funding could alleviate in-state tuition increase In-state students may see a tuition increase reprieve if state lawmakers decide to push $70 million across the table to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission this year.

The HECC voted down a 10.6 percent tuition increase for Oregon residents last month before approving the hike weeks later. Despite student protests and strong condemnation of the decision by ASUO, University of Oregon administrators insisted the increase was necessary to cover rising costs.

Now, Senate Bill 5524 will potentially increase the Higher Education Coordinating Commission’s budget by $90 million next biennium. The public university support fund is set to increase 10.4 percent, or about $70 million.

Tobin Klinger, a UO spokesman, said the university has been working in Salem for months to encourage more investment in higher education. “We’re really thrilled that they have recognized the value of higher education to the state of Oregon,� Klinger said. “They are a partner in helping to provide critical relief in terms of tuition cost.�

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If the Legislative Fiscal Office’s proposal is accepted, universities will be required to roll back their tuition increases by 3 to 4 percent.

According to the senate bill materials, UO would be required to hold its tuition increase to 6.56 percent next year.

In November, UO President Michael Schill, along with the presidents of Oregon’s six other public universities, wrote a letter to state legislators asking for $100 million. Schill has said that if the state increases funding by that amount, tuition increases would be capped at 5 percent.

According to Schill, every $20 million the state pledges to higher education funding, the UO will be able to reduce its tuition increase by 1 percent.

One month after the university presidents requested $100 million, Gov. Kate Brown released her budget for the 2017-19 biennium.

That budget offered increases to K-12 spending but held funding for public universities flat, a move described by administrators as an effectual cut.

Now it appears that Brown and other lawmakers are reconsidering their position, considering the heavy burden students are

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bearing for their education.

At the time, higher education funding was held static due to the $1.6 billion shortfall the state faced over the next two years. It is still unclear where this $70 million will come from.

If the bill passes, the UO Board of Trustees will reconvene in order to determine what the new tuition cost will be, Klinger said. Because they already approved the 10.6 percent increase, they will have to vote on a new cost. Klinger said the school would be able to reduce the tuition increase significantly. “The proposed higher education budget would bring critical tuition relief to the students of the University of Oregon, allowing us to reduce next year’s tuition increase by more than a third,�

Schill said in a prepared statement. “I want to thank the state’s legislative leaders for this important step in the right direction. I hope it is a sign of the state’s continuing commitment to supporting an excellent, accessible higher education system for all Oregonians.�

The Senate recommended on July 1 to pass the bill with amendments following a work session June 30.

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